Barcelona is a very baby-friendly city and is a perfect destination for your first family vacation to Europe with your baby. Barcelona was our first trip as new parents, taking our 3-month old daughter. We had such a great time visiting Barcelona with a baby, that it inspired us to create our Baby Can Travel blog.
Now that you’ve decided to visit Barcelona with a baby, we’ll help you find one of the best Barcelona hotels for families with a baby in one of the best neighborhoods.
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You can read all about our very first trip with a baby in our post on visiting Barcelona with a baby.
Where to Stay in Barcelona with a Baby
The best location for your baby-friendly hotel in Barcelona depends on your priorities are for your family vacation. Here are two recommended neighborhoods for your family trip to Barcelona with your baby:
1. Gothic Quarter
If your family is visiting Barcelona to see the top tourist sights or visit the beach, your best bet will be to stay within the Gothic Quarter, which has it all for travelling parents. Most of the best things to do in Barcelona with a baby are in the Gothic Quarter and can be easily reached by walking with a stroller.
The Gothic Quarter has tons of baby-friendly restaurants, amenities, pharmacies and grocery stores. One area within the Gothic Quarter to consider avoiding for your family hotel is the popular pedestrian street La Rambla as it may be a little loud for a baby trying to sleep.
Browse vacation home rentals and baby-friendly Barcelona hotels in the Gothic Quarter.
2. Eixample
If your family is visiting Barcelona with your baby primarily for shopping, your best bet will be to stay in Eixample. Although it is home to La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona’s top attraction), Eixample is an upscale Barcelona neighborhood which features less tourist attractions but features more high-end shopping and restaurants.
Browse vacation home rentals and baby-friendly Barcelona hotels in Eixample.
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If your family travels extend beyond Barcelona, get some inspiration on other Spanish destinations in our post on visiting Spain with a baby.
Family Hotels in Barcelona
Finding a good baby-friendly Barcelona hotel for your family vacation takes time, which we know you don’t have a lot of right now. Over our years of traveling with a baby, we have developed a very reliable system for picking the best baby-friendly hotels.
To help you find a great baby-friendly hotel in Barcelona, we have used our system to recommend six family-friendly Barcelona hotels over a variety of price ranges.
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If you are interested, we have a post which describes our system for how to pick the best baby-friendly hotels.
Top 6 Baby-Friendly Barcelona Hotels
1. Hotel Duquesa de Cardona
The Hotel Duquesa de Cardona is a baby-friendly hotel in the heart of Barcelona. Overlooking the port and just a few minutes’ walk to the beach, this luxury Barcelona hotel is in a superb location.
Enjoy basking in the Mediterranean sun on the extensive solarium terrace, where you can let your baby explore while enjoying a magnificent, panoramic view of the harbor. Their gastronomic selection includes tapas, barbecues, fresh local products and a professional cocktail bar.
Recently renovated, the 59 guestrooms are furnished in a Moderniste style with marble baths, large Turkish towels, minibars, bathrobes and slippers, and complimentary high-speed Internet access.
Parents will appreciate many baby-friendly features of the Hotel Duquesa de Cardona, including soundproofed rooms along with blackout window shades, which will help your baby sleep better on vacation. This top Barcelona hotel also offers special rooms just for families.
2. Duquesa Suites
A unique renovation transformed a stately Eighteenth-century home into a luxurious family-friendly hotel in Barcelona with 20 fully equipped rooms and modern facilities, so guests can enjoy an unforgettable stay in Barcelona.
The Duquesa Suites Barcelona enjoys a privileged location in front of Barcelona’s Old Port. You’ll appreciate its proximity to the Mediterranean, the Gothic district and its shops, history and monuments.
Along with a rooftop terrace, the Duquesa Suites has a seasonal outdoor rooftop pool and concierge services. All 20 apartments have free Wi-Fi, sofa beds, flat-screen TVs, and coffee makers.
The baby-friendly features of the Duquesa Suites include kitchenettes with refrigerators, stovetops, and microwaves. For a fee, the hotel also offers onsite laundry facilities and babysitting services.
3. Olivia Balmes Hotel
The Olivia Balmes Hotel is an oasis in the heart of central Barcelona. This 4-star baby-friendly Barcelona hotel is located in the Eixample district (one of our recommended neighborhoods) and features free Wi-Fi, a rooftop pool & terrace, gym and a restaurant. All 128 rooms come with LED TVs, minibars, rainfall showerheads and 24-hour room service.
The baby-friendly features of the Olivia Balmes Hotel include soundproofed walls which will allow you to relax, even when your baby is crying. Complimentary cribs are available upon request.
4. Suites Avenue
Suites Avenue has become an architectural icon and a benchmark for luxury stays in the heart of Barcelona. This baby-friendly hotel in Barcelona boasts a superb location with spectacular frontal views of Gaudí’s Modernist La Pedrera building.
Personalized attention and an unsurpassable range of exclusive services are available: gym, sauna, rooftop swimming pools, communal terrace, parking and a museum that showcases unique pieces of Hindu and Buddhist art.
The baby-friendly features of Suites Avenue include full kitchens with refrigerators, stovetops, microwaves, and dishwashers. The soundproofed walls will allow you to relax and not worry about disturbing other guests when your baby is crying.
Families will love that the suites come with a washer and dryer to allow you to clean your children’s clothes mid-trip. Complimentary cribs are available upon request.
Want a romantic dinner out? Babysitting services are available upon request (surcharge).
5. Hotel Granvia
Hotel Granvia is a baby-friendly hotel surrounded by some of Barcelona’s most emblematic and historical landmarks, like Casa Batlló, Palau Robert, Casa Fargas and Casa Ametller.
The newly renovated Hotel Granvía is home to a special gem inside… a spacious and cozy terrace. Here you’ll find an oasis of peace and tranquility, right at the heart of Barcelona. The space will take you by surprise the moment you enter it.
The baby-friendly features of Hotel Granvia include soundproofed rooms and the ability to get connecting rooms. One child under 2 can stay for free if they use existing bedding.
6. Hotel Constanza
We stayed at the Hotel Constanza during our trip to Barcelona with our baby. Turns out this Barcelona hotel doesn’t quite meet our current stringent criteria for picking the best baby-friendly hotels – how embarrassing… ha-ha!
All kidding aside, despite not having a clue how to pick a baby-friendly hotel in Barcelona, we made a pretty good choice with the Hotel Constanza. We enjoyed its central location in Eixample, just a few blocks from Plaça de Catalunya, allowing us to walk nearly everywhere with our stroller.
The baby-friendly features of Hotel Constanza include family rooms, complimentary cribs upon request and balconies for parents to escape to while baby sleeps.
Need More Options?
Didn’t find a hotel that you love? Don’t worry, as Booking.com has an excellent filter for finding family-friendly hotels in Barcelona. You’re bound to find a Barcelona hotel you love there…
Baby-Friendly Barcelona Vacation Home Rentals
Barcelona was our first trip with a baby, so we blindly did as we always do on vacation – we rented a hotel room. Everything went great with our baby in our Barcelona hotel, but as we traveled more with our baby we discovered the advantages of staying in vacation home rentals with our baby.
Airbnb and VRBO rentals have many family-friendly features, especially for parents traveling with a baby. The biggest advantage is having separate bedrooms, which allows you to keep your bedroom lights on while your baby gets to sleep in a separate, quiet, dark room. When looking for a baby-friendly Airbnb, other amenities to look for include a full kitchen and in-suite laundry facilities.
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Finding the perfect accommodations for your family trip to Barcelona is only part of the story. Make sure you know how to safely get your baby from the Barcelona Airport to your hotel.
Essential Baby Gear for Hotel Stays
As you plan your trip to Barcelona with a baby, be sure to consider the gear you need to travel with a baby. To help make your stay at your baby-friendly Barcelona hotel as successful as possible, you may wish to read my post on getting a baby to sleep on holiday.
Baby Travel Essentials
To help make your family trip to Barcelona the best it can be, you should consider looking at your other baby travel gear needs. My list of must-have baby travel essentials covers the best baby travel gear for sleeping, for getting around, for eating and the all-important baby airplane travel gear.
As you can see in my guide to renting baby equipment, you don’t have to pack everything – you can rent it in Barcelona baby equipment rental company.
We hope this list of the best baby-friendly hotels in Barcelona helps you have the best-ever family vacation to Spain!
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Celine Brewer is the owner of Baby Can Travel. Not only does she have years of experience traveling with babies & toddlers, but she's helped millions of new parents travel with their babies and toddlers for over a decade. In addition to writing on her baby travel blog, she has shared her expertise on traveling with a baby or toddler by contributing to articles about traveling with a baby with the Washington Post, USA Today, the Lonely Planet magazine and Pregnancy & Newborn magazine.
Celine also writes about family travel on the site FamilyCanTravel.com, which she co-owns with her husband. Being from the Canadian Rockies, she shares her passion about her home and travel to Banff National Park and area on their site TravelBanffCanada.com.